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Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture

January 01, 1970

The influence of Countess Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture has been notable from the 18th century to the present day. Since her death, various myths and legends surrounding her story have preserved her as a prominent figure in folklore, literature, music, film, games and toys.

In folklore and literature edit

The case of Countess Elizabeth Báthory inspired numerous stories and fairy tales. 18th and 19th century writers liberally added or omitted elements of the narrative. The most common motif of these works was that of the countess bathing in her victims' blood in order to retain beauty or youth. Frequently, the cruel countess would discover the secret of blood bathing when she slapped a female servant in rage, splashing parts of her own skin with blood. Upon removal of the blood, that portion of skin would seem younger and more beautiful than before.

This legend appeared in print for the first time in 1729, in the Jesuit scholar László Turóczi's Tragica Historia,[1] the first written account of the Báthory case.

When quoting him in his 1742 history book, Matthias Bel[2] was sceptical about this particular detail,[3] he nevertheless helped the legend to spread. Subsequent writers of history and fiction alike often identified vanity as the sole motivation for Báthory's crimes.

Modern historians Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally have concluded that the theory Báthory murdered on account of her vanity sprang up from contemporary prejudices about gender roles. Women were not believed to be capable of violence for its own sake. At the beginning of the 19th century, the vanity motif was first questioned, and sadistic pleasure was considered a far more plausible motive for Báthory's crimes.[4] In 1817, the witness accounts (which had surfaced in 1765) were published for the first time,[5] demonstrating that the bloodbaths or blood seeker for vanity aspect of Báthory's crimes were legend rather than fact.

The legend nonetheless persisted in the popular imagination. Some versions of the story were told with the purpose of denouncing female vanity, while other versions aimed to entertain or thrill their audience. Some versions of the story incorporated even more elaborate torture chamber fantasies than recorded history could provide, such as the use of an iron maiden, which were not based on the evidence from Báthory's trial. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name inspired the term masochism, was inspired by the Báthory legend to write his 1874 novella Ewige Jugend ("eternal youth")[6]

Bathory also appears as the main antagonist in the novel Dracula the Un-dead, a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel by his great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. In the book, she is cousin to Count Dracula and was the motive behind his decision to move to London in the original novel, as she was murdering women under the guise of Jack the Ripper and he swore to stop her.

The historical novel The Countess by Rebecca Johns tells a first-person fictionalized account of Báthory's life from her prison cell at Csejthe Castle. In the book, she tells her son, Pál, the story of her life, explaining her behavior toward her servants as punishment for their disloyalty.

Vampire myth edit

The emergence of the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth coincided with the vampire scares that haunted Europe in the early 18th century, reaching even into educated and scientific circles, but the strong connection between the bloodbath or blood seeker myth and the vampiric myth was not made until the 1970s. The first connections were made to promote works of fiction by linking them to the already commercially successful Dracula story. Thus, a 1970 movie based on Báthory and the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth was titled Countess Dracula.

Some Báthory biographers, McNally in particular, have tried to establish the bloodbath myth and the historical Elizabeth Báthory as a source of influence for Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, pointing to similarities in settings and motifs and the fact that Stoker might have read about her. This theory is strongly disputed by author Elizabeth Miller.[7]

Meanwhile, Báthory has become an influence for modern vampire literature and vampire films.[8] The story, while retaining the essential facts, receives an imaginative interpretation in the horror novelist Syra Bond's Cold Blood.[9]

Literature edit

  • Erzsébet Báthory appears as a character in the Hungarian novel Ördögszekér (The Devil's Wagon) published in 1925 by Sándor Makkai, a bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania. The novel is about the incestuous relationship of Gábor Báthory and his younger sister Anna, who were adopted into the household of István Báthory, the older brother of Erzsébet.
  • Historic novel Báthory Erzsébet (1940) by Hungarian writer Kálmán Vándor.
  • The Bloody Countess by Argentinian writer Alejandra Pizarnik was a short Gothic work of fiction (1968, reprinted in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, ed. Chris Baldick).
  • The Dracula Archives (1971) by Raymond Rudorff is a vampire novel that features Báthory.[10]
  • Our Lady of Pain (1974) by John Blackburn is a supernatural horror novel whose plot revolves around a play about Báthory being staged in modern Britain.[10]
  • In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer book Tales of the Slayer Vol. 1 (2001), she is the villain in the story "Die Blutgrafin".
  • Ella, Drácula ("She, Dracula") by Javier García Sánchez, Spanish writer. 2002.
  • The 2006 novel The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby is a revisionist portrayal.
  • The 2007 Brazilian novel O Legado de Bathory by Alexandre Heredia.
  • Finnish detective novel 2008 Unkarilainen taulu ("The Hungarian Painting") by Mikko Karppi.
  • Bathory: Memoir of a Countess (2008) is a novel by A. Mordeaux.
  • Hungarian novella Én, Báthory Erzsébet (I, Elizabeth Báthory) by Mária P. Szabó (2010).
  • She is the main protagonist of the 2010 novel The Countess by Rebecca Johns.
  • Báthory is the main villain in the novel The Blood Countess (2010) by Tara Moss.
  • In the 2010 novel, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith, it is revealed that she was a vampire. After her trial, persecution against vampires in Europe skyrocketed, driving them to settle en masse in the New World.
  • Báthory is described as the daughter of Dracula and appears as one of the main protagonists in Modern Marvels – Viktoriana by Wayne Reinagel (2011)
  • In Robert Statzer's novel To Love a Vampire (ISBN 978-1721227310), a vampiric Elizabeth Bathory encounters a young Abraham Van Helsing, the hero of Bram Stoker's Dracula, during his days as a medical student. Originally published as a serial in the pages of Scary Monsters Magazine from March 2011 to June 2013, a revised version of To Love a Vampire was reprinted in paperback and Kindle editions in June 2018.
  • Character in 2013 story "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlin R. Kiernan.
  • In Alexis Henderson's House of Hunger (2022), she is reimagined as a countess, Lisavet Bathory, who drinks the blood of her servants.
  • Ewige Jugend by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
  • Short story Csejtevár és asszonya (The Lady of Castle Csejte) by Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth.
  • Báthory is a major antagonist in the alternative history/fantasy novels This Rough Magic and Much Fall of Blood by Eric Flint, Dave Freer and Mercedes Lackey. She is portrayed as a sorceress and Satanist as opposed to a vampire.
  • Báthory is the ancestor of protagonist Christopher Csejthe in the Half/Life series of novels by Wm. Mark Simmons and figures prominently in the second book, Dead on My Feet, with a plot twist that hinges on the questionable innocence of Katarina Beneczky (Katalin Benick) among the Countess' collaborators.
  • Báthory is a major character, depicted as a half-breed vampire, in Daughter of the Night by Elaine Bergstrom.
  • The Blood Countess is a novel by Andrei Codrescu.
  • In the science fiction short story Rumfuddle by Jack Vance, a baby who would have grown up to be Elizabeth Báthory is taken to a different time and place in history.
  • In the novel 62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortázar, the countess and her story are recurring themes.
  • In David Eddings' series The Elenium a villainous character called Lady Bellina, who revels in the torture and killing of young women, lives in a castle with an evil reputation, and is bricked into her room as a punishment, is based on Bathory.
  • The novella "Sanguinarius" by Ray Russell is a fictional account of the deeds of Countess Bathory, told in the first person.
  • Colombian writer Ricardo Abdahllah has written several pieces of short fiction around Bathory's myth.
  • Báthory's legend is used as a basis for the Japanese anime Ghost Hunt's seventh file/case mystery "Blood-Soaked Labyrinth", shown from episode 18–21.
  • In the novel Anno Dracula Báthory appears as a relative of Dracula.
  • She appears, 'resurrected' as a vampire, in the latter books of The Vampire Huntress Legend Series by L. A. Banks.
  • In the Nantucket series of science fiction by S.M. Stirling, archvillainess Dr. Alice Hong seems to be based partly on Bathory and one character in the series makes a reference to this similarity.
  • She appears as the main villain in Dracula the Un-Dead, written by Dacre Stoker (Bram's great-grandnephew) and Ian Holt.
  • Báthory is featured prominently in Lord of the Vampires, the third installment of The Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jeanne Kalogridis. In the novel, she is imagined as one of the Brides of Dracula. Dracula frequently addresses her as "cousin".
  • Báthory is the name of the high school where the protagonist of the novel, Vladimir Tod, goes to in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer
  • Báthory is encountered by the band of protagonists while she is imprisoned in Hell in the novel Damned by Chuck Palahniuk.
  • In The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger, one of the primary vampire characters is Countess Nadasdy. Nádasdy was Báthory's married name.
  • She is mentioned in a light novel Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, when Ryuuzaki/L mentions the bathtub being so ruined by blood, the only person who would dream of climbing in is Elizabeth Bathory.
  • The story of Elizabeth Bathory is entangled with a major character's backstory in James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell's The Blood Gospel, part of their Order of the Sanguines series.
  • In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, a character named "Mad" Danelle Lothston is rumored to have stolen children from the lands surrounding her castle, Harrenhal, and bathed in their blood, likely inspired by the historical record of Bathory.

Poetry edit

  • Báthori Erzsébet by Hungarian poet János Garay.
  • Báthory Erzsébet: történeti beszély két énekben (Erzsébet Báthory: Historical Tale in Two Cantos) (1847) by Hungarian poet Sándor Vachott.
  • The Blood Countess, Erzsébet Báthory of Hungary (1560–1614: A Gothic Horror Poem of Violence and Rage) by Robert Peters.
  • The cockerel's waltz by Warwickshire poet Siân Lavinia Anaïs Valeriana, better known by her artist name The Raveness featured her in her 2006 publication Lavinia Volume One ISBN 9781502313966

Comics and manga edit

  • The manga Berusaiyu no Bara Gaiden (a side story from The Rose of Versailles) has her story updated to 18th century France and she is confronted by the characters from the main series, Oscar François de Jarjayes and her friends.
  • In the DC Comics book series Secret Six, the origin of the character Jeannette is revealed. She was taken hostage by Báthory as a young girl and, as the Countess's "favorite", forced to watch every murder with the intent of being Báthory's final victim. However, when the Countess was imprisoned, Jeannette was assigned to care for her and used the position to slowly murder Báthory by placing ground glass in her tea.
  • In the anime Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Carmilla is an ancient vampire who resides in the Castle of Chaythe and uses blood to revive her dead body.
  • In the manhwa series Horror Collector by Lee So-Young, the protagonist Evilice, a wealthy, beautiful collector of items used for acts of violence (i.e. murder) attempts to resurrect the spirit of Elizabeth Bathory, who sealed herself inside of a doll through a blood bath. However, the ritual is only successful under a full moon. A running gag in the manhwa is that Evilice's jealous boyfriend Sin unsuccessfully attempts to get rid of the doll, seeing it as a threat to his relationship with Evilice. Elizabeth Bathory herself is portrayed in this version as a beautiful and compassionate young maiden, which contrasts with her habit of bathing in the blood of her victims, while her younger teenage self acts as a comic relief character.
  • In the Chinese manhwa Journey to the Past by Vivibear, the protagonist Xiao Yin is a time traveler and lives in a tea shop that deal with customers with problems relating to this spiritual ancestors from the past, therefore Xiao Yin travels back in time to ensure that these problems are avoided. In chapter 48, a young girl arrives to the tea shop with a fear of blood; it is found out that the girl has a connection with Elizabeth Bathory, Xiao Yin's mission is to time travel back to Hungary in the year 1560 to meet Bathory and uncover the mystery.
  • The 2014 Dynamite Entertainment comics series The Blood Queen by writer Troy Brownfield is based in part on the legend of Bathory, combined with other fantasy elements.
  • In the manga and anime Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood. the character "Ellie" is based on her.
  • In the manga and anime series Ghost Hunt, during the case “The Bloodstained Labyrinth” Elizabeth Bathory is mentioned, as well as the fact that the subject of the case Urado had imitated what Bathory did by killing young people and bathing in their blood hoping to sustain their own life.
  • In the manga The War of Greedy Witches, Elizabeth Bathory was one the 32 participants who took part in the competition known as Walpurgis, where female historical characters fight and kill each other to win and get their wish granted. She was the first participant to fight against her opponent, Tomoe Gonzen, but was defeated and vanished permanently.

Stage plays edit

  • 1865 – Báthory Erzsébet: Történeti szomorújáték, 5 felvonásban (Erzsébet Báthory: An Historic Tragedy in Five Acts), by Hungarian poet Zoltán Balogh.
  • 1975 – Alžbeta Hrozná (Elisabeth the Terrible) or The Krw Story by Stanislav Štepka, produced at Radošinské Naive Theatre in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
  • 1985 – Báthory Erzsébet by Hungarian playwright András Nagy.
  • 1994 – In the Service of Beauty by Melbourne playwright Sam Sejavka, exploring the final days of the Countess after she has been imprisoned in her castle.
  • 1995 – Bloody Countess - Take me home tonight, a libretto for ballet by Macedonian playwright Žanina Mirčevska, problematizing cannibalism in the western culture.
  • 1998 – UNDEAD Dreams of Darkness written and directed by David M. Nevarrez, with characters and situations based on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, set in modern times, with Erzsebet Bathory a.k.a. Dr. Nadasdy as the vampire antagonist.
  • 2000 – Transylvania no Mori – Shin Toujou! Chibimoon wo Mamoru Senshitachi (The Forest of Translyvania – New Birth! The Soldiers That Protect Chibimoon), a musical from the Sailor Moon musical series (Sera Myu). Elizabeth Bathory was a prominent villain and was depicted as kept alive by being an undead werewolf and posing as an English teacher to trap the Sailor Senshi. She was partnered with another historical serial killer, Gilles de Rais; however, in the 2001 revision her character was replaced by yet another serial killer, Marquise de Brinvilliers.
  • 2000 – Bathory by Canadian playwright Moynan King.
  • 2004 – Erzsebet by Michael Stever, with Amy LeBlanc. First exhibited in 2004 at The American Theatre For Actors, Chernuchin Theatre, NYC. 'Erzsebet' By Michael Stever – Table Read Preview
  • 2005 – Vampyress, an opera written by Chad Salvata, with Melissa Vogt as Erzsebet Bathori. It was produced by Ethos Performance Troupe in association with the VORTEX Repertory Company in Austin, Texas. Vampyress was revived in 2010, Vogt (now Vogt-Patterson) replaying her role as the Bloody Countess.
  • 2007 – Bathory: The Blood Countess, written by John DiDonna and produced by The Empty Spaces Theatre Co.
  • 2010 – Bathory: A new musical music and lyrics by David Levinson, book by Daniel Levinson, produced at the 45th Street Theater and Ripley Grier Studios
  • 2021 – Báthory, monologue written by Carlos Atanes. Performed as dramatized reading at Biblioteca del Soho, Madrid, in 2021.

Television edit

Film edit

There have been numerous films about, referring to, or containing characters based on Countess Elizabeth Báthory:

Radio edit

Video games edit

The bloodbath myth served as a major component of some games:

  • A character based on Elizabeth Báthory, named Elizabeth Bartley, appears in the video game Castlevania: Bloodlines released in 1994. Elisabeth Báthory she appears as the main antagonist of the game as Dracula's niece, who died in the early 16th century but was revived 300 years later, just before World War I. In the game's backstory, she was the one who orchestrated the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war as a means to revive Dracula. She is fought as the penultimate boss of the game, just before facing the final boss (Dracula) in the last level Castle Proserpina.
  • A fan-made, five-mission campaign for Thief II: The Metal Age on PC.[36]
  • In the MMORPG Ragnarok Online, Bathories are witch-like enemies fought on the 4th basement floor of Clock Tower.
  • In the MMORPG DarkEden, Lady Elizabeth Bathory is a game "boss" alongside Lord Vlad Tepes, who players are able to kill in an instanced level known as a "lair".
  • In the MMORPG Atlantica Online, Countess Elizabeth Bathory is the boss of the dungeon Bran Castle alongside Lord Vlad Dracula.
  • "The Countess" is a super unique monster from Blizzard Entertainment's popular dungeon-crawler Diablo 2. The following passage is read in a rotting tome and initiates the quest:

    ... And so it came to pass that the Countess, who once bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a hundred virgins, was buried alive... And her castle in which so many cruel deeds took place fell rapidly into ruin. Rising over the buried dungeons in that god-forsaken wilderness, a solitary tower, like some monument to Evil, is all that remains. The Countess' fortune was believed to be divided among the clergy, although some say that more remains unfound, still buried alongside the rotting skulls that bear mute witness to the inhumanity of the human creature.

  • In the video game Fate/Extra CCC, the new Lancer Servant is based on Báthory as a Heroic Spirit.
  • She also appears in the game Fate/Grand Order as a Lancer, and later as five event servants for Halloween, Elizabeth Bathory [Halloween] as a Caster, Elizabeth Bathory [Brave] as a Saber, Elizabeth Bathory [Cinderella] as a Rider and a robotic Alter Ego version called "Mecha Eli-chan" that also has a "Mk. II" counterpart. While the Saber, Caster, Rider and Lancer servants are based on her 14-year-old self, an Assassin and Rider servant with the alias of "Carmilla" is her own existence in her adult age, succumbing over her dark side. The younger Elizabeth despises her older self, and wishes to never become like her, instead enjoying being a JPOP idol.
  • In Fate/Extella she appears in the same form as in Fate/Extra CCC; however, as several servants severe liberties are taken, such as making her into a JPOPesque singer, a further departure from the semi-realistic portrayal of historical and fictional characters of the early TYPE-moon games from the fate franchise.
  • In the video game Vampire Hunter D, the main antagonist addresses herself as Elizabeth Bartley Carmilla, also referencing the title character of Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla.
  • The Butcheress from the video game BloodRayne claims to be her descendant.
  • In the video game Resident Evil Village, antagonist Alcina Dimitrescu bears strong resemblance to Báthory, and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing her victims before killing them and drinking their blood,
  • In the video game Ninja Gaiden 2, the female villain named Elizabet is seen bathing nude in a pool of blood and her demonic power seems to be that of using blood to attack her foes.
  • In the role-playing game Nightlife, Báthory appears as a Vampyre NPC living under the alias Lisa "Blood" Bath. She is the lead for an unsigned hardcore/heavy metal band called Krypt.
  • In the 2010 role-playing video game expansion Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, a Baroness (dead at the time the game takes place) abducts and kills young female villagers and uses their blood for rejuvenating rituals.
  • In the 2004 PlayStation 2 videogame Primal, there is a young Elizabeth in a Carpathian castle who seems destined to grow up to be Elizabeth Báthory.
  • In Mortal Kombat, the Fatality Tutorial mentions Elizabeth Báthory as the DLC character Skarlet's favorite historical figure, due to the character's blood-based powers.
  • The indefinitely halted video game Shadows of the Eternal was intended to have Elizabeth Báthory as a major character and possible villain, with the main protagonist Clara being a handmaiden and lover/confidante of her.
  • In the Mass Effect series, a female human plastic surgeon named Erzsebet Vidmar killed 30 Asari to harvest a genetic compound which is responsible for slowing the aging process, in an attempt to access the thousand-year lifespan Asari are known for.
  • While Báthory does not appear directly in the game, one of the villains in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is the witch Nuibaba; she would kidnap young, beautiful women and sacrifice them to attain eternal beauty, somewhat in a similar vein to Elizabeth Báthory.
  • In For Honor, The name of the playable female Black Prior is Erzabet. Erzabet is the Hungarian form of Elizabeth, and likely references Elizabeth Báthory.
  • The Tekken series features a playable female vampire character named Eliza, possibly short for Elizabeth.
  • In Warframe, Garuda, a warframe based around gore and blood, has an alternate helmet called "Bathory" which is a nod towards Elizabeth Báthory.

Toys edit

Báthory is featured in McFarlane Toys' 6 Faces of Madness series, a collection of action figures which also includes Jack the Ripper, Rasputin and Vlad the Impaler. Báthory is depicted bathing in blood while the heads of some of her victims are impaled in a candelabrum. Bathory was also made as a doll in the Living Dead Dolls series.

In the board game The Harbingers, which is part of the Atmosfear series of interactive video board games, Elizabeth Bathory was one of the six playable harbingers in the game, portrayed as a vampiress. Prior to that, she had her own added expansion set to the first Atmosfear game; Nightmare.

In the card game Sentinels of the Multiverse, Blood Countess Bathory is the leader of the Court of Blood, a playable "Environment" deck.[37] She is periodically featured in the storytelling podcast based on the game, The Letters Page.[38]

Music edit

  • "Elizabeth", song by Swedish rock band Ghost from the album Opus Eponymous.
  • Elizabetta (2019), opera in two acts by Gabriel Prokofiev, with libretto by David Pountney, premiered in Regensburg, Germany, 2019.
  • Báthory Erzsébet (2012), Hungarian musical-opera by composers György Szomor and Péter Pejtsik, with libretto by Tibor Miklós.
  • Countess Báthory (Báthoryčka), is a 1994 opera by the Slovakian composer Ilja Zeljenka, with libretto by Peter Maťo, after Jonáš Záborský.
  • The Lady of Čachtice (Čachtická pani) is a 1931 opera by the Czech composer Miloš Smatek, with libretto in Slovak by Quido Maria Vyskočil and Elena Krčmáryová.
  • Erzsebet is an opera by French composer Charles Chaynes.
  • A Bestia: Báthory Erzsébet véres legendája (The Beast: The Bloody Legend of Erzsébet Báthory) is a Hungarian rock opera by Béla Szakcsi Lakatos and Géza Csemer.
  • Báthory Erzsébet, opera (premiered in Budapest, 1913) by Hungarian composer Sándor Szeghő (1874–1956).
  • "Elisabetha", song by Gothic metal band Darkwell. There are two versions of this song, one with Stephanie Luzie as vocalist.
  • Erzsébet: Elizabeth Bathory: The Opera is by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (he claims he may be related to her).[39]
  • The extreme metal band Cradle of Filth dedicated their album Cruelty and the Beast (1998) entirely to her, telling her story with a certain degree of artistic license, but keeping the main details of her story intact. There are two versions of the album cover, both feature a woman bathed in a tub of blood. References to Elizabeth Báthory occur throughout the band's work.
  • The German band Untoten have released a concept album about her, called Die Blutgräfin.
  • French singer Juliette (Nourredine) mentions La Bathory in her song "Tueuses" from her 1996 album Rimes Féminines along with numerous famous female criminals.
  • Australian/Japanese unit GPKISM have released two EPs about Báthory, Barathrum (meaning Hell) and Iudicium (meaning fate, judgement or trial).
  • Russian black metal band Messiya had released an EP dedicated to her called Erzebet in the year 2009.
  • Channeling of Lady Elizabeth Bathory is a live album by multigenre jam band Stefanik, Perny & Kollar featuring Kofi recorded in Višňové village, under Čachtice Castle in 2010.
  • Underground hip-hop artist Killah Priest named his album Elizabeth in reference to her.
  • Warwickshire poet and harpsichordist, Siân Lavinia Anaïs Valeriana released an extended play under her nom de plume 'The Raveness' entitled Eat the heart in the year 2006, based around Báthory.

Songs about Elizabeth Báthory include:

  • "Countess Bathory" by the English black metal band Venom, from their highly influential album Black Metal.
  • "Woman of Dark Desires" by the Swedish black metal band Bathory, from the album Under the Sign of the Black Mark.
  • "Beauty Through Order" is by the American thrash metal band Slayer, from the album World Painted Blood.
  • "Channeling Of Lady Elizabeth Bathory" is a live composition by Slovak experimental band Stefanik, Perny & Kollar feat. Kofi from second album Channeling Of Lady Elizabeth Bathory.
  • "Elizabeth" is a song by progressive symphonic metal band Kamelot composed of three parts – "Part I: Mirror Mirror", "Part II: Requiem for the Innocent" and "Part III: Fall From Grace", from their 2001 album Karma.
  • Swiss heavy metal band Burning Witches song and title track, "The Dark Tower" is about Elizabeth Báthory with lyrics calling her "Satan's number one."
  • "Elizabeth" by Czech Gothic rock band XIII Stoleti, from the album Ztraceni v Karpatech (1998).
  • "Elisabeth Bathory" by Hungarian black metal band Tormentor, which was covered by Swedish black metal band Dissection.
  • "Elizabeth" by Swedish heavy metal band Ghost from their debut album Opus Eponymous.
  • "Bathory's Sainthood" by American hardcore band Boy Sets Fire (2003).
  • "Báthory Erzsébet" by experimental doom metal band Sunn O))) is a cover of "A Fine Day To Die" by Bathory.
  • "Countess Erzsebet Nadasdy" by Finnish black metal band Barathrum.
  • "Villa Vampiria" by death metal band God Dethroned.
  • "Transylvanian Pearl" by Russian metal band Nocticula.
  • "Buried Dreams", the title track from the 1987 album of the same name by the British industrial band Clock DVA, sing-speaks to Elizabeth Báthory in her prison cell after being convicted of her crimes, wondering what she thinks about her past.
  • "Torquemada 71", by English stoner metal band Electric Wizard, from the album Witchcult Today.
  • "The Bleeding Baroness" by the metal band Candlemass from their album Death Magic Doom (2009), featuring Robert Lowe on vocals, shows some similarities to Countess Báthory's story. Additionally, Candlemass, featuring Messiah Marcolin on vocals, had also released a single/cover version of the Venom song, "Countess Bathory".
  • "Resurrection" and "Schwarzer Engel" by Spanish Gothic metal band Forever Slave tell the story of Erzsebet Báthory.
  • "Bathe in Blood" by Evile (taken from 2007's Enter the Grave).[40]
  • "Rose of Pain" from the album Blue Blood by X Japan.
  • The song "An Execution", a B-side on the "Cities in Dust" single by Siouxsie and the Banshees, was based on the "myth" of Countess Báthory. Banshees guitarist John Valentine Carruthers states, "She (Siouxsie) was reading this book about Countess Bathory, called Was Dracula A Woman? or something. She used to (sic.) bath in the blood of virgins in the vain hope it would keep you young".[41]
  • "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" by Dutch black metal band Countess.
  • "Salva Me" by Norwegian doom metal band The 3rd and the Mortal.
  • "Sweet Elizabeth" by New York band Valley Lodge.
  • The third section of the song "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber)" by Death Grips, popularly known as "Bald Head Girl", mentions her.

Bands named after Elizabeth Báthory include:

  • The influential Swedish black metal band Bathory take their name from Elizabeth, and mention her in some songs, one being "Woman of Dark Desires".
  • The Dutch black metal band Countess take their band name from Elizabeth's title. They also covered the song Countess Bathory, originally by Venom.
  • American band Ellsbeth take their name from Elizabeth. They released a concept album about her named Well Dressed Killing Machine in 2009.
  • German heavy metal band Elisabetha take their name from her.
  • Mexican heavy metal band Erzsebeth take their name from her and released a concept album about her named La Condesa Inmortal in 2007.
  • Colombian black metal band Erzebet take their name from her.
  • American Gothic metal band Erzebet take their name from her.

References edit

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Further reading edit

  • Farin, Michael (1989). Heroine des Grauens: Wirken und Leben der Elisabeth Báthory: in Briefen, Zeugenaussagen und Phantasiespielen [Heroine of horror: the life and work of Elisabeth Báthory: in letters, testimonies and fantasy games] (in German). p. 293. OCLC 654683776.

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literature music film games and toys Contents 1 In folklore and literature 2 Vampire myth 3 Literature 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Comics and manga 3 3 Stage plays 4 Television 5 Film 6 Radio 7 Video games 8 Toys 9 Music 10 References 11 Further readingIn folklore and literature editThe case of Countess Elizabeth Bathory inspired numerous stories and fairy tales 18th and 19th century writers liberally added or omitted elements of the narrative The most common motif of these works was that of the countess bathing in her victims blood in order to retain beauty or youth Frequently the cruel countess would discover the secret of blood bathing when she slapped a female servant in rage splashing parts of her own skin with blood Upon removal of the blood that portion of skin would seem younger and more beautiful than before This legend appeared in print for the first time in 1729 in the Jesuit scholar Laszlo Turoczi s Tragica Historia 1 the first written account of the Bathory case When quoting him in his 1742 history book Matthias Bel 2 was sceptical about this particular detail 3 he nevertheless helped the legend to spread Subsequent writers of history and fiction alike often identified vanity as the sole motivation for Bathory s crimes Modern historians Radu Florescu and Raymond T McNally have concluded that the theory Bathory murdered on account of her vanity sprang up from contemporary prejudices about gender roles Women were not believed to be capable of violence for its own sake At the beginning of the 19th century the vanity motif was first questioned and sadistic pleasure was considered a far more plausible motive for Bathory s crimes 4 In 1817 the witness accounts which had surfaced in 1765 were published for the first time 5 demonstrating that the bloodbaths or blood seeker for vanity aspect of Bathory s crimes were legend rather than fact The legend nonetheless persisted in the popular imagination Some versions of the story were told with the purpose of denouncing female vanity while other versions aimed to entertain or thrill their audience Some versions of the story incorporated even more elaborate torture chamber fantasies than recorded history could provide such as the use of an iron maiden which were not based on the evidence from Bathory s trial Leopold von Sacher Masoch whose name inspired the term masochism was inspired by the Bathory legend to write his 1874 novella Ewige Jugend eternal youth 6 Bathory also appears as the main antagonist in the novel Dracula the Un dead a sequel to Bram Stoker s classic novel by his great grandnephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt In the book she is cousin to Count Dracula and was the motive behind his decision to move to London in the original novel as she was murdering women under the guise of Jack the Ripper and he swore to stop her The historical novel The Countess by Rebecca Johns tells a first person fictionalized account of Bathory s life from her prison cell at Csejthe Castle In the book she tells her son Pal the story of her life explaining her behavior toward her servants as punishment for their disloyalty Vampire myth editThe emergence of the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth coincided with the vampire scares that haunted Europe in the early 18th century reaching even into educated and scientific circles but the strong connection between the bloodbath or blood seeker myth and the vampiric myth was not made until the 1970s The first connections were made to promote works of fiction by linking them to the already commercially successful Dracula story Thus a 1970 movie based on Bathory and the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth was titled Countess Dracula Some Bathory biographers McNally in particular have tried to establish the bloodbath myth and the historical Elizabeth Bathory as a source of influence for Bram Stoker s 1897 novel Dracula pointing to similarities in settings and motifs and the fact that Stoker might have read about her This theory is strongly disputed by author Elizabeth Miller 7 Meanwhile Bathory has become an influence for modern vampire literature and vampire films 8 The story while retaining the essential facts receives an imaginative interpretation in the horror novelist Syra Bond s Cold Blood 9 Literature editErzsebet Bathory appears as a character in the Hungarian novel Ordogszeker The Devil s Wagon published in 1925 by Sandor Makkai a bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania The novel is about the incestuous relationship of Gabor Bathory and his younger sister Anna who were adopted into the household of Istvan Bathory the older brother of Erzsebet Historic novel Bathory Erzsebet 1940 by Hungarian writer Kalman Vandor The Bloody Countess by Argentinian writer Alejandra Pizarnik was a short Gothic work of fiction 1968 reprinted in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales ed Chris Baldick The Dracula Archives 1971 by Raymond Rudorff is a vampire novel that features Bathory 10 Our Lady of Pain 1974 by John Blackburn is a supernatural horror novel whose plot revolves around a play about Bathory being staged in modern Britain 10 In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer book Tales of the Slayer Vol 1 2001 she is the villain in the story Die Blutgrafin Ella Dracula She Dracula by Javier Garcia Sanchez Spanish writer 2002 The 2006 novel The Blood Confession by Alisa M Libby is a revisionist portrayal The 2007 Brazilian novel O Legado de Bathory by Alexandre Heredia Finnish detective novel 2008 Unkarilainen taulu The Hungarian Painting by Mikko Karppi Bathory Memoir of a Countess 2008 is a novel by A Mordeaux Hungarian novella En Bathory Erzsebet I Elizabeth Bathory by Maria P Szabo 2010 She is the main protagonist of the 2010 novel The Countess by Rebecca Johns Bathory is the main villain in the novel The Blood Countess 2010 by Tara Moss In the 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame Smith it is revealed that she was a vampire After her trial persecution against vampires in Europe skyrocketed driving them to settle en masse in the New World Bathory is described as the daughter of Dracula and appears as one of the main protagonists in Modern Marvels Viktoriana by Wayne Reinagel 2011 In Robert Statzer s novel To Love a Vampire ISBN 978 1721227310 a vampiric Elizabeth Bathory encounters a young Abraham Van Helsing the hero of Bram Stoker s Dracula during his days as a medical student Originally published as a serial in the pages of Scary Monsters Magazine from March 2011 to June 2013 a revised version of To Love a Vampire was reprinted in paperback and Kindle editions in June 2018 Character in 2013 story The Prayer of Ninety Cats by Caitlin R Kiernan In Alexis Henderson s House of Hunger 2022 she is reimagined as a countess Lisavet Bathory who drinks the blood of her servants Ewige Jugend by Leopold von Sacher Masoch Short story Csejtevar es asszonya The Lady of Castle Csejte by Hungarian writer Kalman Mikszath Bathory is a major antagonist in the alternative history fantasy novels This Rough Magic and Much Fall of Blood by Eric Flint Dave Freer and Mercedes Lackey She is portrayed as a sorceress and Satanist as opposed to a vampire Bathory is the ancestor of protagonist Christopher Csejthe in the Half Life series of novels by Wm Mark Simmons and figures prominently in the second book Dead on My Feet with a plot twist that hinges on the questionable innocence of Katarina Beneczky Katalin Benick among the Countess collaborators Bathory is a major character depicted as a half breed vampire in Daughter of the Night by Elaine Bergstrom The Blood Countess is a novel by Andrei Codrescu In the science fiction short story Rumfuddle by Jack Vance a baby who would have grown up to be Elizabeth Bathory is taken to a different time and place in history In the novel 62 A Model Kit by Julio Cortazar the countess and her story are recurring themes In David Eddings series The Elenium a villainous character called Lady Bellina who revels in the torture and killing of young women lives in a castle with an evil reputation and is bricked into her room as a punishment is based on Bathory The novella Sanguinarius by Ray Russell is a fictional account of the deeds of Countess Bathory told in the first person Colombian writer Ricardo Abdahllah has written several pieces of short fiction around Bathory s myth Bathory s legend is used as a basis for the Japanese anime Ghost Hunt s seventh file case mystery Blood Soaked Labyrinth shown from episode 18 21 In the novel Anno Dracula Bathory appears as a relative of Dracula She appears resurrected as a vampire in the latter books of The Vampire Huntress Legend Series by L A Banks In the Nantucket series of science fiction by S M Stirling archvillainess Dr Alice Hong seems to be based partly on Bathory and one character in the series makes a reference to this similarity She appears as the main villain in Dracula the Un Dead written by Dacre Stoker Bram s great grandnephew and Ian Holt Bathory is featured prominently in Lord of the Vampires the third installment of The Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jeanne Kalogridis In the novel she is imagined as one of the Brides of Dracula Dracula frequently addresses her as cousin Bathory is the name of the high school where the protagonist of the novel Vladimir Tod goes to in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer Bathory is encountered by the band of protagonists while she is imprisoned in Hell in the novel Damned by Chuck Palahniuk In The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger one of the primary vampire characters is Countess Nadasdy Nadasdy was Bathory s married name She is mentioned in a light novel Death Note Another Note The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases when Ryuuzaki L mentions the bathtub being so ruined by blood the only person who would dream of climbing in is Elizabeth Bathory The story of Elizabeth Bathory is entangled with a major character s backstory in James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell s The Blood Gospel part of their Order of the Sanguines series In George R R Martin s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels a character named Mad Danelle Lothston is rumored to have stolen children from the lands surrounding her castle Harrenhal and bathed in their blood likely inspired by the historical record of Bathory Poetry edit Bathori Erzsebet by Hungarian poet Janos Garay Bathory Erzsebet torteneti beszely ket enekben Erzsebet Bathory Historical Tale in Two Cantos 1847 by Hungarian poet Sandor Vachott The Blood Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary 1560 1614 A Gothic Horror Poem of Violence and Rage by Robert Peters The cockerel s waltz by Warwickshire poet Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana better known by her artist name The Raveness featured her in her 2006 publication Lavinia Volume One ISBN 9781502313966 Comics and manga edit The manga Berusaiyu no Bara Gaiden a side story from The Rose of Versailles has her story updated to 18th century France and she is confronted by the characters from the main series Oscar Francois de Jarjayes and her friends In the DC Comics book series Secret Six the origin of the character Jeannette is revealed She was taken hostage by Bathory as a young girl and as the Countess s favorite forced to watch every murder with the intent of being Bathory s final victim However when the Countess was imprisoned Jeannette was assigned to care for her and used the position to slowly murder Bathory by placing ground glass in her tea In the anime Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust Carmilla is an ancient vampire who resides in the Castle of Chaythe and uses blood to revive her dead body In the manhwa series Horror Collector by Lee So Young the protagonist Evilice a wealthy beautiful collector of items used for acts of violence i e murder attempts to resurrect the spirit of Elizabeth Bathory who sealed herself inside of a doll through a blood bath However the ritual is only successful under a full moon A running gag in the manhwa is that Evilice s jealous boyfriend Sin unsuccessfully attempts to get rid of the doll seeing it as a threat to his relationship with Evilice Elizabeth Bathory herself is portrayed in this version as a beautiful and compassionate young maiden which contrasts with her habit of bathing in the blood of her victims while her younger teenage self acts as a comic relief character In the Chinese manhwa Journey to the Past by Vivibear the protagonist Xiao Yin is a time traveler and lives in a tea shop that deal with customers with problems relating to this spiritual ancestors from the past therefore Xiao Yin travels back in time to ensure that these problems are avoided In chapter 48 a young girl arrives to the tea shop with a fear of blood it is found out that the girl has a connection with Elizabeth Bathory Xiao Yin s mission is to time travel back to Hungary in the year 1560 to meet Bathory and uncover the mystery The 2014 Dynamite Entertainment comics series The Blood Queen by writer Troy Brownfield is based in part on the legend of Bathory combined with other fantasy elements In the manga and anime Ms Vampire who lives in my neighborhood the character Ellie is based on her In the manga and anime series Ghost Hunt during the case The Bloodstained Labyrinth Elizabeth Bathory is mentioned as well as the fact that the subject of the case Urado had imitated what Bathory did by killing young people and bathing in their blood hoping to sustain their own life In the manga The War of Greedy Witches Elizabeth Bathory was one the 32 participants who took part in the competition known as Walpurgis where female historical characters fight and kill each other to win and get their wish granted She was the first participant to fight against her opponent Tomoe Gonzen but was defeated and vanished permanently Stage plays edit 1865 Bathory Erzsebet Torteneti szomorujatek 5 felvonasban Erzsebet Bathory An Historic Tragedy in Five Acts by Hungarian poet Zoltan Balogh 1975 Alzbeta Hrozna Elisabeth the Terrible or The Krw Story by Stanislav Stepka produced at Radosinske Naive Theatre in Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1985 Bathory Erzsebet by Hungarian playwright Andras Nagy 1994 In the Service of Beauty by Melbourne playwright Sam Sejavka exploring the final days of the Countess after she has been imprisoned in her castle 1995 Bloody Countess Take me home tonight a libretto for ballet by Macedonian playwright Zanina Mircevska problematizing cannibalism in the western culture 1998 UNDEAD Dreams of Darkness written and directed by David M Nevarrez with characters and situations based on Sheridan Le Fanu s Carmilla and Bram Stoker s Dracula set in modern times with Erzsebet Bathory a k a Dr Nadasdy as the vampire antagonist 2000 Transylvania no Mori Shin Toujou Chibimoon wo Mamoru Senshitachi The Forest of Translyvania New Birth The Soldiers That Protect Chibimoon a musical from the Sailor Moon musical series Sera Myu Elizabeth Bathory was a prominent villain and was depicted as kept alive by being an undead werewolf and posing as an English teacher to trap the Sailor Senshi She was partnered with another historical serial killer Gilles de Rais however in the 2001 revision her character was replaced by yet another serial killer Marquise de Brinvilliers 2000 Bathory by Canadian playwright Moynan King 2004 Erzsebet by Michael Stever with Amy LeBlanc First exhibited in 2004 at The American Theatre For Actors Chernuchin Theatre NYC Erzsebet By Michael Stever Table Read Preview 2005 Vampyress an opera written by Chad Salvata with Melissa Vogt as Erzsebet Bathori It was produced by Ethos Performance Troupe in association with the VORTEX Repertory Company in Austin Texas Vampyress was revived in 2010 Vogt now Vogt Patterson replaying her role as the Bloody Countess 2007 Bathory The Blood Countess written by John DiDonna and produced by The Empty Spaces Theatre Co 2010 Bathory A new musical music and lyrics by David Levinson book by Daniel Levinson produced at the 45th Street Theater and Ripley Grier Studios 2021 Bathory monologue written by Carlos Atanes Performed as dramatized reading at Biblioteca del Soho Madrid in 2021 Television editThe fifth season of American Horror Story featured a character loosely based on Elizabeth Bathory named Countess Elizabeth Johnson portrayed by Lady Gaga who slits the throats of her victims in order to drink their blood and remain eternally young She also turned her adopted children the Towheads and her lovers Tristan Donovan and Ramona into vampires as well It was revealed that in the year 1926 she was a silent screen actress who became inflicted with a virus that makes its victims act like vampires which was brought onto her by her lovers Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova Batoria from School for Vampires is named after her The second episode of the second season of the Amazon Prime series Lore recounts the tale of Countess Elizabeth Bathory English actress Maimie McCoy portrays Bathory The second season of the WGN America show Salem featured a character named Countess Palatine Ingrid von Marburg Lucy Lawless who is inspired by and claims to have once been known as Elizabeth Bathory A version of Bathory who has survived to the time of the French Revolution is the main antagonist in the 2023 Netflix series Castlevania Nocturne 11 Film editThere have been numerous films about referring to or containing characters based on Countess Elizabeth Bathory 1970 Necropolis Franco Brocani with Viva Auder as Countess Bathory 12 1971 Countess Dracula Peter Sasdy with Ingrid Pitt as Countess Elisabeth 1971 Daughters of Darkness Harry Kumel with Delphine Seyrig as Countess Bathory 13 1973 Legend of Blood Castle Ceremonia sangrienta Jorge Grau with Lucia Bose as Erzebeth Bathory 14 1973 Curse of the Devil Carlos Aured with Maria Silva as Elizabeth Bathory 15 1973 Immoral Tales Walerian Borowczyk with Paloma Picasso as Elisabeth Bathory 16 1979 Thirst Rod Hardy starring Chantal Contouri as a lineal descendant of Elizabeth Bathory 17 1980 Krvava Pani The Bloody Lady Viktor Kubal animated 1980 Mama Dracula Boris Szulzinger with Louise Fletcher as Mama Dracula 18 1981 Night of the Werewolf Paul Naschy with Julia Saly as Countess Elisabeth Bathory 19 1981 The Tyrant s Heart Miklos Jancso 1988 The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau Dennis Berry 1999 Bloodbath Dan Speaker Kim Turney 2000 Bathory Brian Topping 2000 Alguien mato algo Jorge Navas 2000 La historia de Elizabeth Bathory Leonardo Carreno 2000 Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust Yoshiaki Kawajiri with Beverly Maeda as Carmilla 2002 Killer Love Lloyd A Simandl 2004 Tomb of the Werewolf Fred Olen Ray 2004 Eternal Wilhelm Liebenberg Federico Sanchez 2005 The Brothers Grimm Ehren Kruger Terry Gilliam the Mirror Queen 2005 Night Fangs Ricardo Islas with Marina Muzychenko as Countess Elizabeth Bathory 20 2006 Stay Alive William Brent Bell with Maria Kalinina as the Countess 21 2006 Demon s Claw Lloyd A Simandl video with Kira Reed as Elizabeth Bathory 22 2006 Bram Stoker s Dracula s Curse Leigh Scott with Christina Rosenberg as Countess Ezabet Bathorly 23 2006 Metamorphosis Jeno Hodi 2007 Blood Scarab Donald F Glut video with Monique Parent as Countess Elizabeth Bathory 24 2007 Hellboy Blood and Iron Victor Cook and Tad Stones an animated TV movie with Kath Soucie voicing the character of Erszebet Ondrushko 25 2007 Hostel Part II Eli Roth with Monika Malacova as Mrs Bathory 26 2008 Bathory Countess of Blood Juraj Jakubisko starring Anna Friel as Erzsebet Bathory 27 28 2009 The Countess Julie Delpy starring Delpy as Erzsebet Bathory 27 29 2010 The Bathory Legend Hungarian TV series directed by Gabor N Forgacs 2010 30 Days of Night Dark Days Steve Niles Ben Ketai The queen vampire Lilith Mia Kirshner is based on Elizabeth Bathory as she is featured bathing in human blood in one scene 2012 Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Blu ray edition has an animated deleted scene The Great Calamity depicting Elizabeth Bathory who does not speak In the feature film Bathory is not mentioned 2012 Snow White and the Huntsman Rupert Sanders Queen Ravenna Charlize Theron is loosely inspired by Elizabeth Bathory but instead of bathing in human blood she magically consumes her victims youth and beauty in order to survive 2013 Chastity Bites John V Knowles with Louise Griffiths as Liz Batho Elizabeth Bathory 30 2013 Fright Night 2 New Blood with Jaime Murray as Gerri Dandridge a vampire who is actually Elizabeth Bathory 2014 Documentary Movie Pavel Novotny 400 Years of bloody Countess The secret behind the secret 31 2015 Salem Bloodbath 32 2015 Lady of Csejte Blood Countess U K title with Svetlana Khodchenkova as Elizabeth Bathory 33 2016 Blood of the Tribades The setting is called Bathory and the long last leader the villagers worship is named Bathor 34 2016 The Neon Demon The characters of Ruby Sarah and Gigi are based on Elizabeth Bathory 35 Radio editThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation s supernatural series Nightfall ran a two part dramatization on the atrocities of Bathory called Blood Countess in 1980 Video games editThe bloodbath myth served as a major component of some games A character based on Elizabeth Bathory named Elizabeth Bartley appears in the video game Castlevania Bloodlines released in 1994 Elisabeth Bathory she appears as the main antagonist of the game as Dracula s niece who died in the early 16th century but was revived 300 years later just before World War I In the game s backstory she was the one who orchestrated the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which led to the war as a means to revive Dracula She is fought as the penultimate boss of the game just before facing the final boss Dracula in the last level Castle Proserpina A fan made five mission campaign for Thief II The Metal Age on PC 36 In the MMORPG Ragnarok Online Bathories are witch like enemies fought on the 4th basement floor of Clock Tower In the MMORPG DarkEden Lady Elizabeth Bathory is a game boss alongside Lord Vlad Tepes who players are able to kill in an instanced level known as a lair In the MMORPG Atlantica Online Countess Elizabeth Bathory is the boss of the dungeon Bran Castle alongside Lord Vlad Dracula The Countess is a super unique monster from Blizzard Entertainment s popular dungeon crawler Diablo 2 The following passage is read in a rotting tome and initiates the quest And so it came to pass that the Countess who once bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a hundred virgins was buried alive And her castle in which so many cruel deeds took place fell rapidly into ruin Rising over the buried dungeons in that god forsaken wilderness a solitary tower like some monument to Evil is all that remains The Countess fortune was believed to be divided among the clergy although some say that more remains unfound still buried alongside the rotting skulls that bear mute witness to the inhumanity of the human creature In the video game Fate Extra CCC the new Lancer Servant is based on Bathory as a Heroic Spirit She also appears in the game Fate Grand Order as a Lancer and later as five event servants for Halloween Elizabeth Bathory Halloween as a Caster Elizabeth Bathory Brave as a Saber Elizabeth Bathory Cinderella as a Rider and a robotic Alter Ego version called Mecha Eli chan that also has a Mk II counterpart While the Saber Caster Rider and Lancer servants are based on her 14 year old self an Assassin and Rider servant with the alias of Carmilla is her own existence in her adult age succumbing over her dark side The younger Elizabeth despises her older self and wishes to never become like her instead enjoying being a JPOP idol In Fate Extella she appears in the same form as in Fate Extra CCC however as several servants severe liberties are taken such as making her into a JPOPesque singer a further departure from the semi realistic portrayal of historical and fictional characters of the early TYPE moon games from the fate franchise In the video game Vampire Hunter D the main antagonist addresses herself as Elizabeth Bartley Carmilla also referencing the title character of Sheridan Le Fanu s novella Carmilla The Butcheress from the video game BloodRayne claims to be her descendant In the video game Resident Evil Village antagonist Alcina Dimitrescu bears strong resemblance to Bathory and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing her victims before killing them and drinking their blood In the video game Ninja Gaiden 2 the female villain named Elizabet is seen bathing nude in a pool of blood and her demonic power seems to be that of using blood to attack her foes In the role playing game Nightlife Bathory appears as a Vampyre NPC living under the alias Lisa Blood Bath She is the lead for an unsigned hardcore heavy metal band called Krypt In the 2010 role playing video game expansion Dragon Age Origins Awakening a Baroness dead at the time the game takes place abducts and kills young female villagers and uses their blood for rejuvenating rituals In the 2004 PlayStation 2 videogame Primal there is a young Elizabeth in a Carpathian castle who seems destined to grow up to be Elizabeth Bathory In Mortal Kombat the Fatality Tutorial mentions Elizabeth Bathory as the DLC character Skarlet s favorite historical figure due to the character s blood based powers The indefinitely halted video game Shadows of the Eternal was intended to have Elizabeth Bathory as a major character and possible villain with the main protagonist Clara being a handmaiden and lover confidante of her In the Mass Effect series a female human plastic surgeon named Erzsebet Vidmar killed 30 Asari to harvest a genetic compound which is responsible for slowing the aging process in an attempt to access the thousand year lifespan Asari are known for While Bathory does not appear directly in the game one of the villains in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes Shadows of Valentia is the witch Nuibaba she would kidnap young beautiful women and sacrifice them to attain eternal beauty somewhat in a similar vein to Elizabeth Bathory In For Honor The name of the playable female Black Prior is Erzabet Erzabet is the Hungarian form of Elizabeth and likely references Elizabeth Bathory The Tekken series features a playable female vampire character named Eliza possibly short for Elizabeth In Warframe Garuda a warframe based around gore and blood has an alternate helmet called Bathory which is a nod towards Elizabeth Bathory Toys editBathory is featured in McFarlane Toys 6 Faces of Madness series a collection of action figures which also includes Jack the Ripper Rasputin and Vlad the Impaler Bathory is depicted bathing in blood while the heads of some of her victims are impaled in a candelabrum Bathory was also made as a doll in the Living Dead Dolls series In the board game The Harbingers which is part of the Atmosfear series of interactive video board games Elizabeth Bathory was one of the six playable harbingers in the game portrayed as a vampiress Prior to that she had her own added expansion set to the first Atmosfear game Nightmare In the card game Sentinels of the Multiverse Blood Countess Bathory is the leader of the Court of Blood a playable Environment deck 37 She is periodically featured in the storytelling podcast based on the game The Letters Page 38 Music edit Elizabeth song by Swedish rock band Ghost from the album Opus Eponymous Elizabetta 2019 opera in two acts by Gabriel Prokofiev with libretto by David Pountney premiered in Regensburg Germany 2019 Bathory Erzsebet 2012 Hungarian musical opera by composers Gyorgy Szomor and Peter Pejtsik with libretto by Tibor Miklos Countess Bathory Bathorycka is a 1994 opera by the Slovakian composer Ilja Zeljenka with libretto by Peter Mato after Jonas Zaborsky The Lady of Cachtice Cachticka pani is a 1931 opera by the Czech composer Milos Smatek with libretto in Slovak by Quido Maria Vyskocil and Elena Krcmaryova Erzsebet is an opera by French composer Charles Chaynes A Bestia Bathory Erzsebet veres legendaja The Beast The Bloody Legend of Erzsebet Bathory is a Hungarian rock opera by Bela Szakcsi Lakatos and Geza Csemer Bathory Erzsebet opera premiered in Budapest 1913 by Hungarian composer Sandor Szegho 1874 1956 Elisabetha song by Gothic metal band Darkwell There are two versions of this song one with Stephanie Luzie as vocalist Erzsebet Elizabeth Bathory The Opera is by Dennis Bathory Kitsz he claims he may be related to her 39 The extreme metal band Cradle of Filth dedicated their album Cruelty and the Beast 1998 entirely to her telling her story with a certain degree of artistic license but keeping the main details of her story intact There are two versions of the album cover both feature a woman bathed in a tub of blood References to Elizabeth Bathory occur throughout the band s work The German band Untoten have released a concept album about her called Die Blutgrafin French singer Juliette Nourredine mentions La Bathory in her song Tueuses from her 1996 album Rimes Feminines along with numerous famous female criminals Australian Japanese unit GPKISM have released two EPs about Bathory Barathrum meaning Hell and Iudicium meaning fate judgement or trial Russian black metal band Messiya had released an EP dedicated to her called Erzebet in the year 2009 Channeling of Lady Elizabeth Bathory is a live album by multigenre jam band Stefanik Perny amp Kollar featuring Kofi recorded in Visnove village under Cachtice Castle in 2010 Underground hip hop artist Killah Priest named his album Elizabeth in reference to her Warwickshire poet and harpsichordist Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana released an extended play under her nom de plume The Raveness entitled Eat the heart in the year 2006 based around Bathory Songs about Elizabeth Bathory include Countess Bathory by the English black metal band Venom from their highly influential album Black Metal Woman of Dark Desires by the Swedish black metal band Bathory from the album Under the Sign of the Black Mark Beauty Through Order is by the American thrash metal band Slayer from the album World Painted Blood Channeling Of Lady Elizabeth Bathory is a live composition by Slovak experimental band Stefanik Perny amp Kollar feat Kofi from second album Channeling Of Lady Elizabeth Bathory Elizabeth is a song by progressive symphonic metal band Kamelot composed of three parts Part I Mirror Mirror Part II Requiem for the Innocent and Part III Fall From Grace from their 2001 album Karma Swiss heavy metal band Burning Witches song and title track The Dark Tower is about Elizabeth Bathory with lyrics calling her Satan s number one Elizabeth by Czech Gothic rock band XIII Stoleti from the album Ztraceni v Karpatech 1998 Elisabeth Bathory by Hungarian black metal band Tormentor which was covered by Swedish black metal band Dissection Elizabeth by Swedish heavy metal band Ghost from their debut album Opus Eponymous Bathory s Sainthood by American hardcore band Boy Sets Fire 2003 Bathory Erzsebet by experimental doom metal band Sunn O is a cover of A Fine Day To Die by Bathory Countess Erzsebet Nadasdy by Finnish black metal band Barathrum Villa Vampiria by death metal band God Dethroned Transylvanian Pearl by Russian metal band Nocticula Buried Dreams the title track from the 1987 album of the same name by the British industrial band Clock DVA sing speaks to Elizabeth Bathory in her prison cell after being convicted of her crimes wondering what she thinks about her past Torquemada 71 by English stoner metal band Electric Wizard from the album Witchcult Today The Bleeding Baroness by the metal band Candlemass from their album Death Magic Doom 2009 featuring Robert Lowe on vocals shows some similarities to Countess Bathory s story Additionally Candlemass featuring Messiah Marcolin on vocals had also released a single cover version of the Venom song Countess Bathory Resurrection and Schwarzer Engel by Spanish Gothic metal band Forever Slave tell the story of Erzsebet Bathory Bathe in Blood by Evile taken from 2007 s Enter the Grave 40 Rose of Pain from the album Blue Blood by X Japan The song An Execution a B side on the Cities in Dust single by Siouxsie and the Banshees was based on the myth of Countess Bathory Banshees guitarist John Valentine Carruthers states She Siouxsie was reading this book about Countess Bathory called Was Dracula A Woman or something She used to sic bath in the blood of virgins in the vain hope it would keep you young 41 The Wrath of Satan s Whore by Dutch black metal band Countess Salva Me by Norwegian doom metal band The 3rd and the Mortal Sweet Elizabeth by New York band Valley Lodge The third section of the song Steroids Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber by Death Grips popularly known as Bald Head Girl mentions her Bands named after Elizabeth Bathory include The influential Swedish black metal band Bathory take their name from Elizabeth and mention her in some songs one being Woman of Dark Desires The Dutch black metal band Countess take their band name from Elizabeth s title They also covered the song Countess Bathory originally by Venom American band Ellsbeth take their name from Elizabeth They released a concept album about her named Well Dressed Killing Machine in 2009 German heavy metal band Elisabetha take their name from her Mexican heavy metal band Erzsebeth take their name from her and released a concept album about her named La Condesa Inmortal in 2007 Colombian black metal band Erzebet take their name from her American Gothic metal band Erzebet take their name from her References edit in Turoczi Laszlo 8 September 1729 Ungaria suis cum regibus compendio data by L Turoczi in Latin Typis Academicis Soc Jesu per Fridericum Gall pp 188 193 Retrieved 2 March 2021 quoted by Farin 1989 Bel Matyas 1742 Notitia Hungariae novae historico geographica divisa in partes quatuor elaboravit Mathias Bel accedunt Samuelis Mikovinii Mappae Tomus primus quartus in Latin Vienna Austriae Impensis Paulli Straubii Bibliopolae Typis Iohannis Petri van Ghelen Typographie Regii pp 468 475 Retrieved 2 March 2021 Quoted by Farin 1989 pp 21 27 ut spectatorem primi facinoris cognitoremque cogitationum feminae fuisse credi posset so colorful that one might think he had watched the first crimes and known the woman s thoughts Freyherr von Mednyansky Alois October 1812 Elisabeth Bathory Hesperus 2 59 Prague 470 472 quoted by Farin 1989 pp 61 65 Hesperus Prague June 1817 Vol 1 No 31 p 241 248 and July 1817 Vol 2 No 34 p 270 272 Sacher Masoch Leopold Ritter von 1886 Ewige Jugend 1611 Ewige Jugend und andere Geschichten in German Berlin R Jacobsthal pp 5 43 Retrieved 3 March 2021 Miller Elizabeth 2006 Bram Stoker Elizabeth Bathory and Dracula In Miller Elizabeth ed Dracula Sense and Nonsense Place of publication not identified Desert Island Books ISBN 1 905328 15 X Retrieved 19 January 2009 Zimmerman Bonnie March 1981 Daughters of Darkness Lesbian vampires Jump Cut 24 25 23 24 Retrieved 18 January 2007 Bond Syra 2011 Cold Blood Newark Cambridge House p 300 ISBN 978 1907475689 a b A number of horror writers have incorporated Elisabeth into their horror stories mostly connecting her with the vampire theme like Raymond Rudorff s excellent The Dracula Archives The most unusual it doesn t even mention vampires is John Blackburn s superb novel Our Lady of Pain Roger Johnson In the Night in the Dark London MX Publishing ISBN 9781780920528 p 403 Nunneley Jackson Stephany 28 July 2023 Castlevania Nocturne takes the action to the French Revolution on Netflix in September VG247 Archived from the original on 28 July 2023 Retrieved 6 September 2023 Necropolis 1970 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Daughters of Darkness 1971 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Ceremonia sangrienta 1973 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Curse of the Devil 1973 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Immoral Tales 1974 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Thirst 1979 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Mama Dracula 1980 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2014 Retrieved 9 July 2014 Night of the Werewolf 1981 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Night Fangs 2005 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Stay Alive 2006 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Demon s Claw Video 2006 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Dracula s Curse 2006 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Blood Scarab Video 2008 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Hellboy Animated Blood and Iron TV 2007 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Hostel Part II 2007 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 a b Film 29 June 2008 Countess Elizabeth Bathory icon of evil The Telegraph London Retrieved 1 January 2012 Bathory Countess of Blood 2008 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 The Countess 2009 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 Chastity Bites 2013 Internet Movie Database IMDb com Inc 1999 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2013 More Info Archived from the original on 15 February 2015 Miska Brad 6 February 2015 Awesome Salem Promo Echoes Bathory Lady of Csejte 2015 IMDb 26 February 2015 via m imdb com Farrow Kevan 24 September 2016 BLOOD OF THE TRIBADES Film Review Scream Magazine Five things we know about Nicolas Winding Refn s new film Dazed 16 February 2015 T2 Bathory Campaign 3 0 New Dark 25 03 2013 www ttlg com The Court of Blood Environment Sentinel Comics Wiki sentinelswiki com Retrieved 22 November 2023 The Letters Page Episode 158 Writers Room Tome of the Bizarre Vol 3 151 theletterspage libsyn com Retrieved 22 November 2023 http bathory org Elizabeth Bathory The Opera includes many FAQ sections about the woman herself and topics about her Morgan Anthony October 2007 Armoured Assault Evile frontman Matt Drake hails gargantuan Thrash masterpiece Enter the Grave Lucem Fero Archived from the original on 12 April 2008 Retrieved 3 May 2008 Tinderbox Singles Thebansheesandothercreatures co uk Retrieved 1 January 2012 Further reading editFarin Michael 1989 Heroine des Grauens Wirken und Leben der Elisabeth Bathory in Briefen Zeugenaussagen und Phantasiespielen Heroine of horror the life and work of Elisabeth Bathory in letters testimonies and fantasy games in German p 293 OCLC 654683776 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elizabeth Bathory in popular culture amp oldid 1213606821, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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